Tara S. Holm Explained

Tara S. Holm
Citizenship:	United States
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Cornell University
Alma Mater:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Title:	Equivariant Cohomology, Homogeneous Spaces and Graphs
Thesis Year:	2002
Doctoral Advisor:	Victor William Guillemin
Known For:	Abstract algebra
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Tara Suzanne Holm is a mathematician at Cornell University specializing in algebraic geometry and symplectic geometry.^[1]

Life and career

Holm graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College.^[2] Holm received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002 under the supervision of Victor Guillemin. She went on to a three-year postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, before eventually joining the faculty at Cornell.

Awards and honors

In 2012, Holm became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[3]

In 2013, Holm was awarded a Simons Fellowship.^[4]

In 2019, Holm was awarded the Sze/Hernandez Teaching prize at Cornell.^[5]

In 2019, Holm was the AWM/MAA Falconer Lecturer at MAA MathFest.^[6]

From 2011-2013, Holm was an American Mathematical Society Council member at large.^[7]

Selected publications

• Harada . Megumi . Megumi Harada . Henriques . André . Holm . Tara S. . Computation of generalized equivariant cohomologies of Kac-Moody flag varieties . . 197 . 2005 . 1 . 198–221 . 10.1016/j.aim.2004.10.003 . free. math/0409305 .
• Guillemin . V. . Victor Guillemin . Holm . T. . Zara . C. . A GKM description of the equivariant cohomology ring of a homogeneous space . . 23 . 2006 . 1 . 21–41 . 10.1007/s10801-006-6027-4 . free. math/0112184 .
• Hausmann . Jean-Claude . Holm . Tara S. . Puppe . Volker . Conjugation spaces . . 5 . 2005 . 923–964 . 10.2140/agt.2005.5.923 . free. math/0412057 .
• Biss . Daniel . Daniel Biss . Guillemin . Victor W. . Victor Guillemin. Holm . Tara S. . The mod 2 cohomology of fixed point sets of anti-symplectic involutions . . 185 . 2004 . 2 . 370–399 . 10.1016/j.aim.2003.07.007 . free.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Home page of Tara S. Holm. Cornell University. Feb 2, 2015.
2. News: Tara Holm, Timothy Riley. Oct 31, 2008. New York Times. Feb 2, 2015.
3. http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
4. Web site: 2013 Simons Fellows Awardees: Mathematics. Feb 2, 2015. Simons Foundation. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150104134232/https://www.simonsfoundation.org/funding/funding-opportunities/mathematics-physical-sciences/simons-fellow-program/simons-fellows-awardees-mathematics/2013-simons-fellows-awardees-mathematics/. January 4, 2015.
5. Web site: Sze/Hernandez Teaching Prize Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences Cornell Arts & Sciences. as.cornell.edu. 2019-10-06.
6. Web site: AWM at MAA MathFest 2019. awm-math.org. 2020-01-17.
7. Web site: AMS Committees . 2023-03-29 . American Mathematical Society . en.